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Yes, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Swing Vote -- the two movies opening wide today -- both get a red light from me.
Welcome to August, traditionally the worst movie month of the year. And who wants to mess with tradition?
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(postings feed) |
 | Bolt |
 | Twilight |
| Body of Lies |
| Blindness |
| Choke |
| Waltz with Bashir [trailer] |
 | Quantum of Solace |
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
| Role Models |
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year |
| Changeling |
| Rachel Getting Married |
 | Dostana [trailer] |
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
| Happy-Go-Lucky |
| Slumdog Millionaire [trailer] |
| Quantum of Solace |
| Max Payne |
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year |
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno |
| Ghost Town |
| Dostana [trailer] |
| The Baader-Meinhof Complex [trailer] |
| Hunger [trailer] |
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
| Of Time and the City |
| Australia [trailer] |
| Good [trailer] |
| Last Chance Harvey |
| Frost/Nixon [trailer] |
| Milk [trailer] |
| Che |
| Waltz with Bashir [trailer] |
| Synecdoche, New York |
| Pride and Glory |
| The Duchess |
| Religulous |
| W. |
| Soul Men |
| Burn After Reading |
| RocknRolla |
| Eagle Eye |
| The Secret Life of Bees |
| American Teen |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| I've Loved You So Long |
| What Just Happened |
| Sex Drive |
| Igor |
| Trouble the Water |
| Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist |
| Good Dick |
comments
posted by Bill (Fri Aug 01 08, 1:30PM)
Are you kidding me? Bubble Boy AND Pauly Shore's In the Army Now came out in August, says the interweb. We are clearly in the month of timeless classics.
But The Sixth Sense and The 13th Warrior were August releases, as well. So maybe there's hope for surprise gem.
posted by Clayj (Fri Aug 01 08, 2:51PM)
Hmm. August wide releases:
This week:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: bad
Swing Vote: eh
The Midnight Meat Train: could be OK, don't expect much
8/8 (the Olympics start):
Pineapple Express: bad (and I expect MaryAnn will SHRED this one)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2: bad
8/15:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: bad
Tropic Thunder: looks good... putting this movie in this weekend might be brilliant from the perspective of being a diamond in the rough
Mirrors: looks like it could be OK
Vicky Christina Barcelona: not even sure what this is
8/22:
Death Race: could be OK in a cheesy Escape from New York / Doomsday / Mad Max kinda way
The House Bunny: looks bad
The Longshots (directed by Fred Durst... yes, that Fred Durst): you have to ask?
The Rocker: might be OK
8/29:
Disaster Movie: oh, HELL no
Babylon AD: doesn't look too promising
Traitor: might be good (Don Cheadle stars in this one)
College: don't know anything about it
Tropic Thunder is probably my only "probably going to see it" in this list.
posted by Hdj (Fri Aug 01 08, 3:06PM)
I got my summer cut out for me, clone wars, Death race 2000, Babylon A.D the new Vin Diesel movie no ones talking about, for some reason, no love for Vinny D i guess. No one can seem to forgive him for movies like Fast and the furious (which I didn't see, not much of a car guy ,I'd drive a station wagon if i had to) and XXX (Which I did see only because of Asia Argento). Theres a chance I'll try to see, Tropic Thunder, depending on the reviews here and other places.
posted by MaryAnn (Fri Aug 01 08, 3:11PM)
*Tropic Thunder* is hilarious. Definitely a must-see.
*Midnight Meat Train* is not a wide release -- it's at only 102 theaters, none of them in NYC, which is a bad sign.
*Vicky* is a Woody Allen movie, so could be good, could be bad...
posted by Bill (Fri Aug 01 08, 3:19PM)
Vicky Christina Barcelona could be really good. I think it's Woody Allen. Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz - there is potential here.
posted by FrankS (Sat Aug 02 08, 2:45AM)
Baghead just opened here in the Chicago area. I heard it got some positive reviews at Sundance, so I'm heading out to see it later today.
posted by MaryAnn (Sat Aug 02 08, 1:19PM)
*Baghead* is not a wide release, though. There are *always* interesting indies and foreign films to be found, no matter wide time of the year. It's the wide releases that are generally dire in August.